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Voices in the Park (PB)
"Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to this simple story which explores many of the author s key themes, such as alienation, friendship and the bizarre amid the mundane. Anthony Browne s world-renowned...
A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins
Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters w...
Tigerfish
From best-selling and award-winning author David Metzenthen comes a powerful new novel. Better in here, they think. Safe and sound. No shocks and no surprises. Twenty-one degrees Celsius all year round. Ryan Lanyon lives in the shadows of a shopping centre on the far side of the city. His brother is a b...
A History of Loneliness
The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when...
The Murder of Harriet Krohn
Charlo Torp has problems. He's grieving for his late wife, he's lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an elderly woman of her money and silverware. But Harriet Krohn fights back, and Charlo loses control. Wracked with guilt, Char...
Pop Art: A Colourful History
Pop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movementPop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking, we are ...
The Dry
WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY? It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-...
The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins - and Solutions
Why is it that the richest countries in the world-those that have the highest rates of education and wealth-are also the countries with the highest levels of inequality? As long as there have been humans, there has been inequality among them. The ancients wrote poetry about it. And it has always been ab...
Limelight
From thirteen-year-old award-winning slam poet Solli Raphael comes Limelight, an extraodinary book that showcases that age is no barrier to creating poetry that inspires social change and positive action. Limelight is a unique collection of slam poetry paired with inspirational writing techniques. W...
Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man and Ninety Days
What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly compulsive narrative, Bill Clegg leads us through ...
Misrule
The third thrilling book in Jodi McAlister's page-turning Valentine series. Things that happen sometimes when your boyfriend is a magical fairy prince- he gets kidnapped by his older brother and whisked away to fulfil his destiny in their magical fairy kingdom. But Pearl Linford is not having that. It...
The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab
**Winner of the Transmission Prize 2019** THE OLD GODS ARE DYING. Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet. NEW IDOLS ARE RISING IN THEIR PLACE. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots batt...
Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE 'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav Ghosh In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother. But as Arjie comes to terms ...
Rebel (#4 Legend)
Eden Wing may be a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, but most people still know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother. A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. But these days, he's all too ready to leav...
On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-...
The 169-Storey Treehouse
Andy and Terry have built their biggest and most astonishing treehouse yet! It has everything they - and you - could wish for, including an electric pony stable, a Santa Land, a NOISY level, a kangaroo-riding range, a WHATEVER-WEATHER-YOU-WANT dome, a 100% edible gingerbread house and a hall of funhouse...
The Bee Sting
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling o...
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